Difference between revisions of "Histosol"

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An histosol (HS) can be defined through :

a histic or folic horizon
- 10 cm or more thick from the soil surface to a lithic or paralithic contact
- 40 cm or more thick and starting within 30 cm from the soil surface

and :

the lack of an andic or vitric horizon starting within 30 cm from the soil surface

For each RSG, there are some possible prefix and suffix qualifiers :

Prefix qualifiers		Suffix qualifiers

Folic Limnic Lignic Fibric Hemic Sapric Floatic Subaquatic Glacic Ombric Rheic Technic Cryic Hyperskeletic Leptic Vitric Andic Salic Calcic		Thionic Ornithic Calcaric Sodic Alcalic Toxic Dystric Eutric Turbic Gelic Petrogleyic Placic Skeletic Tidalic Drainic Transportic Novic

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 * [[Has for suffix qualifier::Novic (WRB qualifier)|Novic]]
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+==See also==
+* The Histosol's page on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histosol Wikipedia]
+* The [http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/wrb/wrbmaps/htm/histos.htm FAO's map] of the distribution of histosols in the world
 ==Source==